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""The One Thousand and First Night"" is a work consisting of three plays written by ""Bahram Bayzaei"", each of which consists of one act. The book portrays six women in narratives in which women are active and decide for their own destiny. Beyzaie has described attractive and distinct heroes in recreating Shahrzad's archetype.

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Bahram Beyzaie is an award-winning Iranian filmmaker, theater director, playwright, educator, and scholar of the history of Iranian theater. He was one of the leaders of the generation of filmmakers known as the Iranian New Wave, beginning in the late 1960s, and helped revitalize Iran's performing arts by incorporating Indo-Iranian mythology and Iranian conventional performing arts with modern theater and cinema. Over the past 50 years, Beyzaie has written numerous papers and published more than 70 books, monographs, plays, and screenplays. He has directed 14 staged plays, ten feature films, and four short films. Beyzaie was the head of the Theater Arts Department at the University of Tehran for many years. His comprehensive book Theatre in Iran (1965) is considered an authoritative account of Iranian theater history. Since Beyzaie's arrival at Stanford University in 2010 as the Lecturer of Persian Studies, he has staged several plays and held workshops on Iranian mythology and cinema. He currently teaches courses on Iranian theater and cinema at Stanford. Saeed Talajooy was born and educated in Iran. He studied and then taught English and world literatures in English in Iranian universities and through his teaching became interested in how ideas, characters and images travel across genres, cultures and historical periods. His PhD thesis, 'Mythologizing the Transition: A Comparative Study of Bahram Beyzaie and Wole Soyinka' (University of Leeds) marks this interest and his current research suggests the continuity of his engagement with inter-textual and inter-media journeys of ideas.His current research is on the point of convergence between literary, performance and film studies and on the reflections of the changing patterns of Iranian identity in Persian literature and Iranian theatre and cinema. It involves studying the way Iranian playwrights and filmmakers refashion indigenous dramatic forms, modes of thought, myths, history and classical literary works to recreate their ideal images of Iranian identity, or the way they adapt non-Iranian novels and plays for Iranian stage and screen. It reflects on technical, thematic and intercultural adaptation as a way of promoting or resisting dominant cultural discourses. Another aspect of his research involves comparative studies of cultural resistance in African and Middle Eastern Drama. He has taught world drama in English and English language, literature and drama in Iran, and Persian language and literature, Iranian cinema, and postcolonial and comparative literature in the UK. At the moment he is working on a monograph entitled Modernity and Iranian Drama: Plays and Playwrights, a collection of five Iranian plays in English and his essays on the Iranian theatre.His teaching includes convening honour and postgraduate modules for advanced Persian language, modern and classical Persian literature and Iranian Cinema and Theatre as well as comparative literature modules.

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